• Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent

  • Jul 9 2024
  • Length: 1 hr
  • Podcast

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Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent

  • Summary

  • The Gilded Age West was a place to disappear for some. For Ray Hamilton and Jake Sargent - men from distinguished eastern families that sought privacy after scandals turned their lives apart - the West could not shield them from ongoing intrigue. Dr. Maura Jane Farrelly joins the show to talk about her latest book Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent, which detail these men's lives and those around them in Jackson, Wyoming.


    Essential Reading:


    Maura Jane Farrelly, Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent (2024).


    Recommended Reading:


    Wendy Gonaver, The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880 (2019).


    Aaron Freundschuh, The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth Century Paris (2017).


    Julie Miller, Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City (2008).


    Stephen O'Connor, Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children he Saved and Failed (2001).



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